RL stuff and art
It’s unbelievable that I could exist without LJ for about four weeks… RL, of course, is to blame, as usual. The worst about it is that I couldn’t even reply to your wonderful comments on my latest pic. *BIG SOBS*
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I don’t want to bore you with details. One thing I want to tell, though, because it may amuse you. It’s still freezing temperatures around here; and for two weeks, we were without central heating. Luckily, we have a fireplace in the living room; plus a small electric radiator which we placed in the sleeping room. The other rooms couldn’t be used, it simply was too cold. Unfortunately, warm water was affected, too. If you are used to get warm water by simply turning on the faucet, well, everyday life can turn out rather circumstantial. Showering, of course, was out of the question, as was washing hair. At least as I am used to. *g* .Can you imagine how it’s like to heat up lots of water first, carry it to the cold bathroom, and then pour it over your head with a small bowl? We called it “bowl-showering”… After the third time, it ceased to be funny. Now, that hubby got the necessary replacement part and repaired the heating, we appreciate getting warm water without any fuss; and it’s pure luxury!
Tonight was the first time since four weeks to paint, and I intended to do three pics in one row. I wanted two pics of my pets to hang up in the corridor, which we painted in a challenging light green. So it had to be my dog with a dark green background, and my cat with a red background. After that, I thought, there would be plenty of time to think about a nice HD-pic. Lol. What a fool I am! Just because there hadn’t been a problem to add doggies and kittens to HD-pics, it doesn’t mean I can manage a doggie portrait just as fast. *sighs* It took me the whole night to finish the pic, and now I’m exhausted. Grrr. I didn’t expect that a doggie portrait, big sized, would take me so much effort. Actually, it was far more difficult than a portrait of a human. Or it’s because I’ve got more practise with portraits of male humans, *g*.
That reminds me of a problem. The company I’m working for has asked all employees who think themselves to be artistic to contribute something of their work for an exhibition. Of course, enthusiastically, I wanted to join at once. But then I noticed the best pics I did lately are exclusively H/D-pics. *sighs* So now I’ve got about one month to paint something amazing and brilliant if I want to show off. And that’s what I just can’t do. I’m no artist after all. I paint just for fun, just out of the spur of the moment. I can’t paint anything if I don’t feel what’s being depicted. Hrm. Of course I could paint something non-H/D with all my heart and soul, but - I’m not sure if I could share it with somebody ignorant. Ehrm? Does that, what I wrote, make sense?
Sorry that I wrote so much.
Enjoy. ♥
Title: Faithful Toby
Artist: eyesemerald
Rating: G
Materials Used: Soft pastels on green cardboard
Notes: Actually, the colours used are more brilliant, the strokes more powerful. But as I am a rotten photographer, most of it was lost. Sorry for that; the pic was too big for the scanner.
Click to enlarge
If you want to know more, clicky...
I don’t want to bore you with details. One thing I want to tell, though, because it may amuse you. It’s still freezing temperatures around here; and for two weeks, we were without central heating. Luckily, we have a fireplace in the living room; plus a small electric radiator which we placed in the sleeping room. The other rooms couldn’t be used, it simply was too cold. Unfortunately, warm water was affected, too. If you are used to get warm water by simply turning on the faucet, well, everyday life can turn out rather circumstantial. Showering, of course, was out of the question, as was washing hair. At least as I am used to. *g* .Can you imagine how it’s like to heat up lots of water first, carry it to the cold bathroom, and then pour it over your head with a small bowl? We called it “bowl-showering”… After the third time, it ceased to be funny. Now, that hubby got the necessary replacement part and repaired the heating, we appreciate getting warm water without any fuss; and it’s pure luxury!
Tonight was the first time since four weeks to paint, and I intended to do three pics in one row. I wanted two pics of my pets to hang up in the corridor, which we painted in a challenging light green. So it had to be my dog with a dark green background, and my cat with a red background. After that, I thought, there would be plenty of time to think about a nice HD-pic. Lol. What a fool I am! Just because there hadn’t been a problem to add doggies and kittens to HD-pics, it doesn’t mean I can manage a doggie portrait just as fast. *sighs* It took me the whole night to finish the pic, and now I’m exhausted. Grrr. I didn’t expect that a doggie portrait, big sized, would take me so much effort. Actually, it was far more difficult than a portrait of a human. Or it’s because I’ve got more practise with portraits of male humans, *g*.
That reminds me of a problem. The company I’m working for has asked all employees who think themselves to be artistic to contribute something of their work for an exhibition. Of course, enthusiastically, I wanted to join at once. But then I noticed the best pics I did lately are exclusively H/D-pics. *sighs* So now I’ve got about one month to paint something amazing and brilliant if I want to show off. And that’s what I just can’t do. I’m no artist after all. I paint just for fun, just out of the spur of the moment. I can’t paint anything if I don’t feel what’s being depicted. Hrm. Of course I could paint something non-H/D with all my heart and soul, but - I’m not sure if I could share it with somebody ignorant. Ehrm? Does that, what I wrote, make sense?
Sorry that I wrote so much.
Enjoy. ♥
Title: Faithful Toby
Artist: eyesemerald
Rating: G
Materials Used: Soft pastels on green cardboard
Notes: Actually, the colours used are more brilliant, the strokes more powerful. But as I am a rotten photographer, most of it was lost. Sorry for that; the pic was too big for the scanner.
Click to enlarge